The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-02

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fallen we may expect excellent crops this
season.
Three store houses are being built at the
depot of the Florida Railway and Navlga-
ton road at Dave City, and it is thought
that the entire business portion Of the town
will be moved there.
1t Is stated on good authority that Florida
has now 1880 public schools Nassau county
has sixty-two. Nassau's State and county
school tax amounts to $l0126 OF which
the city Of Fernandina pays about S4,6OO.
The orange trees throughout the Waldo
section have never before been filled with
fruit in such abundant profusion. The
fruit Is now well set, and the crop will be
at least twice as large as that of any pre-
ceding year.
Jacob Cue, representing the Duke of
Sutherland, and C. E. Spencer were at
Sumterville on Monday last looking at
railroad lands near that place with the view
of purchasing and settling Scotch colony
upon them. They were well pleased with
the quality and location of the land.
Micanopy and Evinston are shipping half
the vegetables now being carried ever the
Florida Southern. On Tuesday there was
shipped from Micanopy $40 packages, con-
sisting of beans, Irish potatoes, cabbage,
squash and cucumber, and yesterday they
contributes about half as many daily.
The steamer Cumberland, now on the
docks at Blackwater, will be put regularly
in the trade between Pensacola and Tampa,
beginning July |, and that, shortly thereaf-
ter, another boat TO ply between the same
ports, touching at st. Augustine, Apalachi
cola, st. Marks and Cedar Key, will be
put on. The line is owned by Henry Fuller
& Son, of Tampa.
The residence located on the grove of
Mrs J. E. Walpole, half mile south of
Sumterville, was consumed by fire on
Thursday, April 81, at o'clock in the day.
The house was occupied by colored wo-
man, who was from home at the time of
the burning, and lost all her household
effects The fire was the work of an in
cendiarg, it is supposed.
Last Saturday Mr.. Johanson, of the firm
of JohansOn & Isgren, of Arcadia, was at
work at the turning lathe getting out
banisters, when the guide, which had not
been properly fastened, worked around until
it struck the revolving piece of wood, caus-
ing it to fly up, striking him in the mouth,
loosening a few teeth and splitting the lower
lip. The lip and part of the chin were badly
lacerated. DR.. Greene dressed the wound,
which is very painful. Mr.. Johanson was
confined to his room for day or two. He
is now out again, but is not yet able to par
take of any solid food.
At Orlando Friday afternoon, about $50
o'clock, the storehouse belonging to the Or
lando Fruit Company gave way with
crash, burying in its ruins piles of casks
containing orange wine. Providentially,
no one was hurt, but the crash alarmed the
citizens resident in the vicinity, who hur-
ried to the scene of the disaster. The build
ing was not insured, and the loss will be a
considerable one to the company. AS Mr.
Cram, the manager of the company, was
sitting in his office he heard the building
crack, and on going to ascertain the cause he
observed that the nails in the beams support
ing the centre of the building had given
away. Mr.. Cram at once left the Office and
called for assistance. He had, however,
hardly got outside the building when the
whole ediflce came down with a terrific
crash. The store was a wooden one recently
erected and slightly built 1t was composed
of timbers recently forming the South
Florida Exposition building and was used
as a store for the wire manufactured by the
Orlando Fruit Company. 1t is the inten-
ton OF the company to rebuild the store
more substantially as soon as possible. The
dimensions of the one destroyed were $50
feet long by 81 feet broad and it was capa-
bic of storing an immense quantity of wine.
Sumterville Times: Bunk towns il Ship
car loads of crate stuff is now lying on the
yard at Panasoffkee depot Two thousand
and five hundred crates of Strawberries
were shipped from Panasoffkee within the
past week. The old reliable steamer Pyles
is intact and getting all the business she can
do. Grand preparations are being made for
the concert to be given at Panasoffkee at an
early day. w. d. Lewis, the big strawberry
grower, shipped 800 crates ON Wednesday
m 1-afr oh oil
is shipping cabbage by the boat load. He
will probably have about 10000 barrels
Freights down the river have increased
largely, and the steamers are loaded down
with vegetables every trip up. For the first
twenty-five days in this month, $500 barrels
of cabbage, 700 crates of vegetables. and 400
crates of fruit, were shipped by freight from
this depot. 1t will be gratifying news to
every one in this section to learn that John
Conley will rebuild his mill on the old site as
soon as he can get his machinery in order
The burning of this property, some seven
weeks ago, has proven great drawback to
the people for miles around, as Mr. Conley
had large orders for crates and building
material, and in consequence of the fire
could not fill them
One of the old settlers of Arcadia the other
day, in the course Of conversation, related a
wonderful story of how he secured a lot of
uuhcSS. ne Sdlu he WdnUeu mess OF
turkeys mighty bad and, taking his gun and
dog, started out to get some He walked
several miles without seeing any signs or
hearing gobbler. As it was getting dark
he was about to return home, when he heard
a noise up III the top of pine tree. Look
ing up he was astonished to see a bunch of
turkeys roosting on limb. He counted
thirteen. The old man said they looked so
nice and fat that be hated for any of them
to get away, and he determined TO try
an experiment, which, it seems from
his statement proved satisfactory. He ar
gued that ''if he could only split that limb
all the turkeys feet would fall in the crack
and get fastened, so, taking good aim with
his old rife, he fired, and when the smoke
cleared away he had the satisfaction of
seeing thirteen turkeys hanging by their
feet, and raising the biggest row he ever
heard in his life. Now, to get the turkeys
was the next thing. The tree was too tall
to climb, and the only thing that remained
for him to do was to shoot the limb Off
Loading the old rifle again, he fired the
second shot, bringing both limb and tur-
keys TO the ground The old man said he
and the old woman had hardly got through
eating turkey yet.